The Australian Aboriginals had a pretty interesting passport and diplomacy dating back 10s of thousands of years. Two nations would each get a new born and perform ceremonies to link the two together, effectively making them brothers in law. When grown up, these two would act as diplomats between nations and were expected to learn each other's languages and cultures etc to be good at their job. They also had passports which were pieces of wood with carvings on them to allow strangers to travel through their nation without being seen as hostile.
@@hestikakala3027 They also built all the cities, all forms of money, all the infrastructure. I mean sure, if you want the white European descendants who were born on the same land as the indigenous and all the Asian, African and American settlers to leave the continent, sure, we'll do that, and we'll take all the stuff we put here too so you can go back to the dark ages. I'm not happy at what the English did to the Indigenous population, but without them, you wouldn't have a country, or democracy, or any form of economy or resources that were dug out of the ground so, pick your poison
When I returned to the US, to the Great Lakes region, after some years overseas, I had to open a bank account. Without any other valid form of identification, like a driver's license, I presented my passport to the banker. The reply was "what's this?" She had never seen a passport before.
In contrast, practically every European Adult has one, despite the fact that most European countries can be entered by europeans without border checks. Schengen Area rules!
@@khoichau8316 it's mostly because travel outside the US is very expensive and since the US is such a large country there's little incentive to leave unless you really want to/have to.
@@khoichau8316 Not super surprising when you think about it. The US is huge and as such a large percentage of our population never leave the country...they don't need to. In contrast, in other parts of the world where countries are much smaller, particularly Europe, people are constantly crossing international borders. In those places, passports are as ubiquitous as drivers licenses in the US (conversely drivers licenses are much rarer in say Europe because public transport is so good that you don't need to drive).
I know .. the irony in his voice that passports, now being created with full info and support of the powers, did not do the whole job. Hilarious. And yes, follow up video, as you say, is a must.
Might be worth mentioning that a lot of ordinary people still travelled without a pass from their ruler. Mainly pilgrims, which is also why they often banded together into larger groups for protection. I'd love to see a video on ancient tourism, which was essentially pilgrimage.
I beg to differ. Tourism is travel with the purpose of seeing places. Pilgrimage is travel to a place of worship, that you get to know places is a side effect. While it looks the same, the mindset of the traveller is completely different, as is their behaviour.
@@marcondespauloTemples were also effectively used as banks though, as a depository, similar to monasteries acting as hostels for travelers. The question is one of mindset of the people at the time if it is "Go to Cairo and pay respects to the local gods as just good sense while we are there." and "I will undertake this holy journey to honor Osiris." Pilgrim had very different meanings by era, and well see Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales for how attitudes could 'realistically' differ among pilgrims from different occupations and standings.
@@marcondespaulo In the olden times religion was omnipresent but less formal than today, pilmagre was just turism, and going to church was just going to chat with friends.
@@ValeriePallaoro At that time in the UK everybody, adults and children, could have their own individual passport if they so wished. I had my own passport as a child in the 1960's. There were two other options available to families. A passport could be issued to the husband in which his wife and children could be included. The passport was valid for the husband to travel alone but the wife or children could not use the passport without the husband travelling with them. As this was discriminatory, in the late 70's the rule was changed to allow the joint passport to be issued to either the husband or the wife but the same rules about travelling alone applied; a husband included on his wife's passport could not travel without her. The other option was for the husband and wife to both obtain their own passports and in such cases the children could be included in either or both of the passports. Again, the children could not travel using such passports unless accompanied by the applicable adult.
This is especially important because I learned recently that in the old days you didn't get boat tickets to an actual destination. My best friend's mom, when she went to Britain from America to study in the early 50s, remembers she had a ticket that just said Europe. And once you had that ticket you just got off at your destination.
I live in the US, near the Canadian border. Nearly my whole life I just needed to show ID & my birth certificate to cross. Regulations tightened up and I also needed a passport to travel to England while in college, but even then the guards at the Canadian border never cared. No stamps, no thorough checks, just a quick glance and a "Have a nice time." When I came home from England and passed through Customs at JFK Airport, they said "Welcome Home."
Fun fact, there’s a library that’s right on the border between Vermont and Quebec. Before 9/11 you were able to easily visit Derby Line VT and Stanstead without a passport but now you need one
Not just there, before 9/11 Canadians and Americans could cross the border anywhere with just a birth certificate, I used to go to the US quite often in the 80s and was never even asked to show ID at all.
@@kenlompart9905I grew up in El Paso, in the US but right on the Mexican border. You didn't have to show anything at all in the 80s and 90s, though crossing into Mexico the Mexican authorities would charge 50 cents.
In a previous video, you mentioned Ancient Borders were porous and represented a gradual frontier with people traveling between them quite often. In General, do you know if travel permits were required by all people (say, in Rome) or only those on specific business; and if so, how effective they would have been?
This is fantastically information-dense. I love this format as it lets me look up so many new questions I never had before. Also, this makes me want to replay Papers Please. GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!
As recently as the early-mid 2000s you did not need a passport for most north american travel. After 9/11 they changed that and now you need either a full out passport or a "passport card" which could also be an enhanced drivers license.
However, to travel by plane between US and Canada you need a full passport and not a passport card. The passport card only allows travel by land and water.
I only knew the definition of the word passport when I was little was from a name of one of Jules Verne’s character’s “Passepartout”. Even it’s wrong, all it was is a play on words like Passport and the french word Partout, which means “everywhere”. In a way, it is, but in reality, it isn’t. Regardless, thank you Verne for writing “Around the World in 80 days”
Spain in the 16th century had a place called the Casa de Contratación (Contract House) where the only way you could legally travel from Spain to the West Indies was through that place. They did it to avoid that the empire behave like a mirror of the mother country and only allowed certain people to travel. This rule was loosen in the 18th century with the Bourbon Reformations to allow a massive population growth in the empire and increase profits through taxation and trade
I think this was the last of your videos I hadn't watched. I have now seen the entire archive. Mwahaha. I will use the knowledge you have granted me for nefarious purposes.
Small and commonplace? How about the history of the safety match? Actually, passports are now really quite complex: security printed, with numerous safeguards against tampering and duplication, and they have all sorts of functionality. And just because something is small doesn’t make it easy: think of your watch or even the battery within your watch.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 eh humans are just legends how call incredibly complex things simple because we have insanely complex things so by comparison loads of common are "simple"
In Ontario Canada you do not need a passport(sure not a Visa) to enter the US by land. They accept a enhanced Driver's License and Nexis card also. I do it all the time before the covid-19.
"Safe conduct" is not the same thing as permission to travel, at least in England. "Safe conduct" was granted to foreigners, mostly dignitaries or those on government business, and granted them safe passage--meaning they could not be molested or harmed while on official business.
"Insert Name Here"--but in Latin. (0:28). Wonderful! And otherwise very informative too, so thanks! And, congrats on your productivity of late History Matters--always a joy to see a new video show up on TH-cam so frequently.
Marco Polo famously carried a golden tablet called a pai zhi, which had instructions from Kublai Khan detailing that the carrier was a trusted servant and should be both allowed through and provided for.
Your graphic of the New Zealand passport is missing the te reo word for passport, uruwhenua, which is on the front of my passport as well as the English
Passport travelling is one thing, but a couple of hundred years ago, I guess the main obstacle was the travel in itself, and if you managed to make it all the way, there hardly were some border control agent to turn you around...
I think that it comes from the pass you need to enter a sea port because in French, passport (passport, pronounced pass-pore) literally means pass- port, whilst gate (porte, pronounced port) has a pronounced T.
An 87-year-old American World War II Army veteran decided to take his family to France as a last hoorah. Everyone was excited to go, so they took their vacations, booked their flights and off they went across the big pond. After exiting the plane, the vet approached customs and was asked by the agent for his passport. He fumbled a bit to look for it in his bag but couldn’t find it. His family came to his aid, but the French agent was incredibly impatient and rude. “Sir, have you ever been to France?” he asked. The veteran respectfully answered that he had. “Well, you should know then that you should have your passport handy when entering France,” he said rather harshly. Without missing a beat the vet fired back, “To be honest, the last time I was in France was on D-Day in 1944 and there wasn’t a Frenchmen in sight to show my papers to.”
My late grandads sister and family moved to Australia from England as a 10 pound pom. She is still there and didn't have a passport or need one to leave or enter.
“In French, yo”
The little details are what make these videos amazing
In French, _though_
it's let them in, yo
"In French, je"
@@julesp8830 Je means I.
“ISSUER: I DON’T ANSWER TO YOU, PERSIAN.” seems legit
Yes, pretty resonable
Sounds like a khajit being refused to enter Whiterun
it still stands today
@@rofllmaozedong His wares were of Chinese origin and suspicious.
@@MasterMalrubius lol, no visa or lollygaggin' for the khajit
*sees New Zealand passport*
*Feels validated*
New Zealand is just Australia at this point
@@sthisisahumanboidavidvelaz2326 West Islander
@@sthisisahumanboidavidvelaz2326 NZ is Australia where we can properly manage a pandemic and don't treat the indigenous people like subhumans.
@@hemiedwards217 Mostly 'cos they're big.
I thought there would be more comments here
"Description: Like, a solid 4."
Tough burn History Matters.
I feel this would really have been how things would happen had Donald Trump been a king of England
I dont get it?
I also don't get it...
@@toukairin354 Like when you rate someone's look, "she's a solid 10" basically he's a below average looking dude.
Woman travelling: Solid C-cup, perky bounce. Saved you the question; boobs?
GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA INSPECTOR!
I saw what you did there :D
I'm going to have to see your paper please their been an inspection order by the commander
GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA
where in the video is it?
@@matheusGMN 0:03 2nd from the left
matheusGMN In the start of the video where you see the passports there is one with ARSTOTZKA
The Australian Aboriginals had a pretty interesting passport and diplomacy dating back 10s of thousands of years. Two nations would each get a new born and perform ceremonies to link the two together, effectively making them brothers in law. When grown up, these two would act as diplomats between nations and were expected to learn each other's languages and cultures etc to be good at their job.
They also had passports which were pieces of wood with carvings on them to allow strangers to travel through their nation without being seen as hostile.
Wow, pretty ahead of its time!
Wow.
Fascinating , thank you for that !
@Area69employee and their passports were disease, muskets and alcohol.
@@hestikakala3027 They also built all the cities, all forms of money, all the infrastructure. I mean sure, if you want the white European descendants who were born on the same land as the indigenous and all the Asian, African and American settlers to leave the continent, sure, we'll do that, and we'll take all the stuff we put here too so you can go back to the dark ages. I'm not happy at what the English did to the Indigenous population, but without them, you wouldn't have a country, or democracy, or any form of economy or resources that were dug out of the ground so, pick your poison
Once again History Matters asks a question that I've never thought of before in my life, but now that I've heard it I can't stop thinking about it.
Surprisingly I was wondering about this before. How far back in time would you have to go to be able to legally cross borders without a passport
Arabs had them in the 9th century lol
When I returned to the US, to the Great Lakes region, after some years overseas, I had to open a bank account. Without any other valid form of identification, like a driver's license, I presented my passport to the banker. The reply was "what's this?" She had never seen a passport before.
Passports are the worst thing happened in human traveling.
Compared to most other industrialized countries relatively few Americans have passports
In contrast, practically every European Adult has one, despite the fact that most European countries can be entered by europeans without border checks. Schengen Area rules!
@@khoichau8316 it's mostly because travel outside the US is very expensive and since the US is such a large country there's little incentive to leave unless you really want to/have to.
@@khoichau8316 Not super surprising when you think about it. The US is huge and as such a large percentage of our population never leave the country...they don't need to. In contrast, in other parts of the world where countries are much smaller, particularly Europe, people are constantly crossing international borders. In those places, passports are as ubiquitous as drivers licenses in the US (conversely drivers licenses are much rarer in say Europe because public transport is so good that you don't need to drive).
"When did Visas become a thing"
The sequel that I expect to be on par with Empire Strikes Back.
I hope James Bissonnet also wishes that.
Credit or Debit? And what about Amex? That will do nicely.
Visa: "No, MasterCard. I *am* your father!"
MC: "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
I thought Mastercard’s father was Access - your flexible friend!
I know .. the irony in his voice that passports, now being created with full info and support of the powers, did not do the whole job. Hilarious. And yes, follow up video, as you say, is a must.
*Sees Zuid-Nederland for Belgium*
"A man of culture and intellect, I see."
Ja, toch?!
Might be worth mentioning that a lot of ordinary people still travelled without a pass from their ruler. Mainly pilgrims, which is also why they often banded together into larger groups for protection. I'd love to see a video on ancient tourism, which was essentially pilgrimage.
I beg to differ.
Tourism is travel with the purpose of seeing places.
Pilgrimage is travel to a place of worship, that you get to know places is a side effect.
While it looks the same, the mindset of the traveller is completely different, as is their behaviour.
@@marcondespauloTemples were also effectively used as banks though, as a depository, similar to monasteries acting as hostels for travelers. The question is one of mindset of the people at the time if it is "Go to Cairo and pay respects to the local gods as just good sense while we are there." and "I will undertake this holy journey to honor Osiris." Pilgrim had very different meanings by era, and well see Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales for how attitudes could 'realistically' differ among pilgrims from different occupations and standings.
@@Nasrudith well only that Cairo didn’t exist back then
@@marcondespaulo Dude, read the Cantenbury tales. It WAS tourism.
@@marcondespaulo In the olden times religion was omnipresent but less formal than today, pilmagre was just turism, and going to church was just going to chat with friends.
0:02
Dude you literally teach me about history things I didn't even know I wanted to know about. Thanks a lot, keep up the great work 🙌
0:11 Belgium doesn't exist it's just The South-Netherlands
Gay and Broadway true
And also northern France
@@Ifoundnohappinesshere And also an Autobahn to Paris.
True true
2:40
When I was young we had a US passport-for our family. It was a picture of my mother and father with their children on their laps.
When I was 12, they put children on the mothers passport. Bit sad for mom, and dad got his own.
Australia circa 1960
@@ValeriePallaoro At that time in the UK everybody, adults and children, could have their own individual passport if they so wished. I had my own passport as a child in the 1960's.
There were two other options available to families. A passport could be issued to the husband in which his wife and children could be included. The passport was valid for the husband to travel alone but the wife or children could not use the passport without the husband travelling with them. As this was discriminatory, in the late 70's the rule was changed to allow the joint passport to be issued to either the husband or the wife but the same rules about travelling alone applied; a husband included on his wife's passport could not travel without her. The other option was for the husband and wife to both obtain their own passports and in such cases the children could be included in either or both of the passports. Again, the children could not travel using such passports unless accompanied by the applicable adult.
It makes me happy that you have a solid 30 seconds dedicated to your patrons, you're getting the money you deserve for your content
You know it's gonna be a lit video when at 0:04 you see People's Republic of Arstotzka
You mean 0:03?
Haha I am Dutch love your zuid Nederland meme Flanders right full Dutch clay
*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
Fuck off met die kut meme
Mr Coconut Nut grappig toch?
@@wouterberings6535 zeker uit vlaanderen
@@justthadaniel4412 *zuid nederland
This is especially important because I learned recently that in the old days you didn't get boat tickets to an actual destination. My best friend's mom, when she went to Britain from America to study in the early 50s, remembers she had a ticket that just said Europe. And once you had that ticket you just got off at your destination.
Highly unlikely. Some misunderstanding here I think.
I live in the US, near the Canadian border. Nearly my whole life I just needed to show ID & my birth certificate to cross. Regulations tightened up and I also needed a passport to travel to England while in college, but even then the guards at the Canadian border never cared. No stamps, no thorough checks, just a quick glance and a "Have a nice time." When I came home from England and passed through Customs at JFK Airport, they said "Welcome Home."
Well thats what traveling in the European union feels like for me
Yep I remember when you only needed a USA birth certificate to travel to Canada! Not anymore
Fun fact: Felice Orsini's name roughly translate to Happy Little Bears
I had this question about 10 years ago..and this video answered it perfectly and humorously!!
Fun fact, there’s a library that’s right on the border between Vermont and Quebec. Before 9/11 you were able to easily visit Derby Line VT and Stanstead without a passport but now you need one
Lots of weird borders like that between Canada and the USA. A lack of satellite GPS when the borders were established.
Not just there, before 9/11 Canadians and Americans could cross the border anywhere with just a birth certificate, I used to go to the US quite often in the 80s and was never even asked to show ID at all.
They also except enhanced driver's licences enhanced Lerner permits and enhanced state IDs.
@@kenlompart9905I grew up in El Paso, in the US but right on the Mexican border. You didn't have to show anything at all in the 80s and 90s, though crossing into Mexico the Mexican authorities would charge 50 cents.
00:32 I love those scrutinizing eyes, like that Frye "not sure" meme
I've been binging all your videos recently, still in the middle of it and you threw another one in.
bonus vid
0:03 I love that Arstotzkan passport, Papers Please is an amazing game
In a previous video, you mentioned Ancient Borders were porous and represented a gradual frontier with people traveling between them quite often. In General, do you know if travel permits were required by all people (say, in Rome) or only those on specific business; and if so, how effective they would have been?
This is fantastically information-dense. I love this format as it lets me look up so many new questions I never had before. Also, this makes me want to replay Papers Please. GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!
0:03 GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA
Issuing city was wrong. You lose~!
NEXT!
@@SeoulMan ha jokes on you i memorized them
@Kali Southpaw can't detain on expired documents only forged
Cobrastan*
Last time i was this early, Norway wasn't in a personal union
0:03 Ah yes Arstotzka the greatest country on earth
As recently as the early-mid 2000s you did not need a passport for most north american travel. After 9/11 they changed that and now you need either a full out passport or a "passport card" which could also be an enhanced drivers license.
However, to travel by plane between US and Canada you need a full passport and not a passport card. The passport card only allows travel by land and water.
European Union: *laughs in Schengen Area*
Individual countries of the union still have passports and you need them if you want to travel to a non-EU country.
*UK has left the chat*
@@firefox3249 UK was never in Schengen Area.
@@PasserMontanus Aye, but EU citizens didn't need a passport to enter. You could do so with your ID.
@John Alejandro Is it really necessary to make the same dumb joke thrice under one video?
This actually was something I wondered about quite a bit. Thanks for the answer!
As a Dutch person I really like that he calls Belgium "south netherlands"
2:59 So nice he thanked you twice :)
0:03 Papers, please. Glory to Arstotzka!
I only knew the definition of the word passport when I was little was from a name of one of Jules Verne’s character’s “Passepartout”. Even it’s wrong, all it was is a play on words like Passport and the french word Partout, which means “everywhere”. In a way, it is, but in reality, it isn’t. Regardless, thank you Verne for writing “Around the World in 80 days”
A passe-partout is a key that open all doors (master key).
I like the attention to detail that led to the sign "Ned Nederland | Nederland" even though you can hardly see the first half of the sign
Spain in the 16th century had a place called the Casa de Contratación (Contract House) where the only way you could legally travel from Spain to the West Indies was through that place. They did it to avoid that the empire behave like a mirror of the mother country and only allowed certain people to travel. This rule was loosen in the 18th century with the Bourbon Reformations to allow a massive population growth in the empire and increase profits through taxation and trade
History Matters: 0:00
Schengen area: How about no?
Actually you don’t need a passport to go into other EU countries, even those outside the Schengen Area
Equity no you half-witted pineapple.
@@edipires15 You 100% needed and still do, a passport to go from the UK to France even though we were in the EU
Dae nope, as an EU citizen, all I need is an ID card to travel to any EU, EEA country or Switzerland
@@edipires15 As a British citizen I need my passport to go to the EU. We don't have ID cards, we are not that dytopian yet.
Blessed video
Hello there
A short historyof the best passport-free zone would be rad. I'm talking about Schengen specificaly, but the other ones would also be fine, I guess.
I googled this yesterday, but you came to rescue me a day later for my burning urge for an answer
I think this was the last of your videos I hadn't watched.
I have now seen the entire archive. Mwahaha. I will use the knowledge you have granted me for nefarious purposes.
0:12 yeah, this guy is definitely dutch😂
He's british
illuminatutos how do you know?
@@dylan2478 How do you know he's dutch?
Arnas Bakanas only Dutch make those jokes. Also saw it on other videos
Haha zuid Nederland right full Dutch clay
All the history questions I only thought to ask after (ok, LONG after) I got out of school. Best.Channel.Ever.
The last time I was this early,
[No one cares]
Kinda the wrong flag
@Adolfo Hitlerinho so now we have them all every off the official german flags
You know, these ironic "last time I was this early" comments are starting to become worse than the unironic ones.
EUIV ETS2 The last times I was this ealry German was not even unified
Plz no world war 3
So glad to learn something new on TH-cam in only 3 minutes, after a long time!
It's amazing that something as small and common place like a passport has such a colorful history.
Small and commonplace? How about the history of the safety match?
Actually, passports are now really quite complex: security printed, with numerous safeguards against tampering and duplication, and they have all sorts of functionality.
And just because something is small doesn’t make it easy: think of your watch or even the battery within your watch.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 I think you're just one of those people who like to argue for the sake of arguing
@@chad_b - To wisdom thru argument. Ardua ad Astra!
@@sirrathersplendid4825 lol yeah I suppose that is true
@@sirrathersplendid4825 eh humans are just legends how call incredibly complex things simple because we have insanely complex things so by comparison loads of common are "simple"
Love these vids...they're so realistic they make you feel like you were THERE
2:40 Zuid Nederland | Nederland
This post was made by the Nederlandse gang
I did enjoy watching, and thank you for providing these videos!
In Ontario Canada you do not need a passport(sure not a Visa) to enter the US by land. They accept a enhanced Driver's License and Nexis card also.
I do it all the time before the covid-19.
Great to have many videos from you, keep up the great work !
1:08 "yo, laisser entrer"
This man is answering question I didn't know I had.
*AND I LOVE IT*
When you’re about to get a passport and a video about passports come out
It is a sign!
questions I had never considered and immidiatly needed to have an awnser to. Thank you
"Safe conduct" is not the same thing as permission to travel, at least in England. "Safe conduct" was granted to foreigners, mostly dignitaries or those on government business, and granted them safe passage--meaning they could not be molested or harmed while on official business.
Yes. Also thought he got this wrong.
There was a specific term for the ‘passport’ of its day. In Latin, iirc, and widely used throughout Europe.
Expected a Papers Please reference. Wasn't disappointed.
When traveling to another country (...) you'll need a passport"
Me: laughs in european
@Luís Filipe Andrade More like drowning in the Mediterranean.
@Luís Filipe Andrade i wish
@@jimmievonmarienburg6272 I wish
@@jimmievonmarienburg6272 if that were only the case
@John Alejandro lol
Man, this channel wont stop surprise me haha) Every video is worth watching and more then interesting! I love it so much! THX
The "Visa Required" on the American-Canadian border is funny because citizens of each of those countries do not require a visa to travel to the other
The papers please reference did not go unnoticed
"Zuid Nederlands" is rather Belgium (or Nord de la France depending on who you ask).
I think of it as West Luxembourg...
Or Really East Anglia.
How about Faraway New Zealand.
why not both?
@@seneca983 how about new zealand is actually still part of old zeeland?
Or ,,Niepodległe Imperium Belgijskie", if you ask Polish.
"Insert Name Here"--but in Latin. (0:28). Wonderful! And otherwise very informative too, so thanks!
And, congrats on your productivity of late History Matters--always a joy to see a new video show up on TH-cam so frequently.
Passeport: "let them in, yo."
Lmao
Marco Polo famously carried a golden tablet called a pai zhi, which had instructions from Kublai Khan detailing that the carrier was a trusted servant and should be both allowed through and provided for.
*Laughs in european*
I love how you make him squint his eyes at 0:33
0:02 lol the Arstotzkan passport right there
Is this from a game or something like that
@@ДимитърМитов-ш6ю... WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS
Thanks!
Your graphic of the New Zealand passport is missing the te reo word for passport, uruwhenua, which is on the front of my passport as well as the English
Well they’re simplistic designs.
0:12 As a person who grew up in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands (Zuid-Nederland), I can definitely confirm this depiction.
Me: *Gets passport stamped*
History matters: *Pops out of my phone* Why tho
Genuenly loved that Papers please refrence in the start.
Passport travelling is one thing, but a couple of hundred years ago, I guess the main obstacle was the travel in itself, and if you managed to make it all the way, there hardly were some border control agent to turn you around...
0:04 that Papers Please reference 😍
"Let them in, yo" ( in French tho) I love this channel
I think that it comes from the pass you need to enter a sea port because in French, passport (passport, pronounced pass-pore) literally means pass- port, whilst gate (porte, pronounced port) has a pronounced T.
An 87-year-old American World War II Army veteran decided to take his family to France as a last hoorah. Everyone was excited to go, so they took their vacations, booked their flights and off they went across the big pond.
After exiting the plane, the vet approached customs and was asked by the agent for his passport.
He fumbled a bit to look for it in his bag but couldn’t find it. His family came to his aid, but the French agent was incredibly impatient and rude.
“Sir, have you ever been to France?” he asked.
The veteran respectfully answered that he had.
“Well, you should know then that you should have your passport handy when entering France,” he said rather harshly.
Without missing a beat the vet fired back, “To be honest, the last time I was in France was on D-Day in 1944 and there wasn’t a Frenchmen in sight to show my papers to.”
I've seen this story online before. No idea if it's true in the exact details, but I suspect that something similar has occurred more than once.
i really like your frequent uploads sir
JEZUS CHRIST I WAS JUST ASKING THIS QUESTION A COUPLE DAYS BACK
Man do I love this channel.
I just anime tp into countries, I don't need a passport
Teleport you mean..?
These topics are getting only better
Yeah New Zealand
My late grandads sister and family moved to Australia from England as a 10 pound pom. She is still there and didn't have a passport or need one to leave or enter.
Me: pauses at 0:03
Also me: ARSTOTZKA GLORY GREATEST MOTHER PROUD!!!!!!!!!!
At 0:04 the first thing that came to my mind was "The Terminal".
When the kings like controlling movement but get too lazy to do it themselves
TheRenaissanceman65 it was a joke, smh
TheRenaissanceman65 for it to be funny, you would have to understand it
As seen @ 00:48
' a tad upset' just always tickles me.
0:12 FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UPHOLDS THE TRUTH
Dutch myself :)
It's time to spread the truth *bois!*
WHY ARE YOU THE NETHERLANDS WHEN YOU ARE IN NORTHERN EUROPE
History Matters did that since the video about Kaiser Wilhelm II's exile in the Netherlands :)
WhupTheeDoo yes it’s the truth!
Flemish myself :)
I like how the avatar in the outro is very similar to the picture “The Son of Man” of Magritte.
-sighs-
I remember a time (pre-9/11) when you could travel between the US and Canada with just a drivers license.
I’d love this to still exist as a Canadian, I’m sure Americans do too
you gotta respect the papers please reference at the start there :D
"Description: Like a solid 4"
Oof, I felt that in my bones
No one noticed the arstotzkan passport at the start? Lol, it was so funny, I didn't know the creator of the vid knew about papers please. Love it!!!😂
"Let them in, yo"
"Let them in, yo"